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Any news? :-) -- Addi hockey 10 e-mail 03:33, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi John, any luck finding an image for Frank Ponta? I'll be holding the DYK nomination in case you have one. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 09:59, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
John, I tried this google link that you gave in the email with the intention that I know how to operate them before showing the other gals and guys on how to classified user by location. If you look at the link, it's totally collapse on Indonesian user page (search result just went unrelated-ly bezerk), unlike the English one with a lot of search result. Anyway, long story short: not working in Indonesian, might help you in the English page. No need to answer in WP EN page talk, never checked 'em :p Serenity id ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:19, 4 September 2011 (UTC).
Hi John, You have previously voted to decline the case against La goutte de pluie because of an open RfC/U against the user. I have presented a new diff in my section to show that it is highly unlikely the RFC will be successful, and would like to request that you revisit the situation. Thanks. Strange Passerby ( talk • cont) 03:02, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, since you contributed to the article in the last year you may wish to participate in the discussion on refs and tags. In ictu oculi ( talk) 05:24, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a response to a question Newyorkbrad asked. It took time for me to craft it.
To add this at this time, do I need to ask permission from you and your co-author? If so, this is my request.
If permissible, where do I add this? -- Tenmei ( talk) 19:22, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
I was also asked the exact same question on my talkpage. I have replied there. Regards Alexandr Dmitri ( talk) 19:36, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Hai. Terima kasih sebab beri perhatian.
I put up the WMAu IRC geonotice, and it should go live at Sep 26 00:00 UTC. Please go and check (after 11am AEST) if it works. Der yck C. 15:41, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for an explanation here. You may take this for granted, but it's new to me. I do not believe that the underlined sentences are made explicit in any other place.
This would have made a difference if I could have read it before today. This is the answer to questions I had not yet thought to ask.
Please consider adding the underlined sentences in the decision so that a wider readership will have the opportunity to read them.
At Discretionary sanctions, please consider incorporating this phrase in "organised complaint management system" which encourages administrators working together. If I had read this phrase in January 2011, it might have helped mitigate some of the problems in Senkaku-related talk pages.-- Tenmei ( talk) 18:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Sorry I will be unable to attend. Cgoodwin ( talk) 23:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
The article A Graphics Language has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
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Stuartyeates (
talk) 06:06, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
A long time has passed and the stated purpose of this filter when it was created has not materialized. Sole Soul ( talk) 11:11, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
I find your editing in my sandbox to be quite disturbing. Given your association with certain individuals, I would think you would leave well enough alone. IF a certain group of individuals has a problem with my creating an article maybe they should talk to me, instead of sending their Admin to do their dirty work.
Your actions are extremely interesting given your conflicting actions following this edit
[2] of your own. Next time why not post "your" concern on my talk page? It is a shame that when it comes to "certain" groups of individuals that all of Wikipedia's policies seem to fade away. --
Kansas Bear (
talk) 02:48, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
How about taking care of this [3]. Or does, "Kansas Bear is not american . he is working for racist governments", not qualify as a personal attack? Cheers. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 03:54, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Another attack [4]. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 03:55, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 04:18, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
John: Once upon a time (July 2007) you commented in an discussion for deletion that Brian Camelio was a member of Journey (band). This observation was added to the article without a reference and ironically enough, is causing a fair amount of current controversy. I don't suppose you remember what the source of that information was do you? I checked the Journey page as of that time and didn't see a mention of it.-- Nowa ( talk) 21:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
I have Twinkle, and I've installed the scripts for the DelSort tool in my vector.js file. Although I have restarted my browser, bypassing the cache, the tool does not work. Delsort appears on the dropdown menu, but when I click it, I get the text "javascript:DelsortFrame()" in the status bar and nothing else happens. Please help! RolandR ( talk) 10:59, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi John, I just got back from a meeting with Siska. Starting tomorrow, I will be her guinea pig to see how the Free Knowledge program works on English Wikipedia, and she has asked that you assist in scoring the article(s) submitted. I am waiting on the scoring sheet, but once I have it I will send it to you. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 13:39, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
How obvious does a john254 sock have to get on [wp:rfar] pages before you lot recognise it :). Unless glottal stop is Tony Sidaway, of course... although, to be honest, what's the difference, really? 101.118.50.41 ( talk) 23:42, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
A few of the articles you have tagged as female were actually male. I have undone your edits on Bobby Despotovski, Gene Bates and Sam Hill. Out of interest, are you going to be creating corresponding cats for male sportspeople? Hack ( talk) 03:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
I notice that Jack Venman has been moved to mainspace. Might be kind of cool if we can get a WikiAcademy article to the front page... what do you think? Lankiveil ( speak to me) 13:11, 7 November 2011 (UTC).
Hello John Vandenberg,
I have just returned from a month long ArbCom block for such onerous reasons as wikistalking and edit warring. It was administrator Ironholds who blocked me, (and I had never heard about him before he blocked me anyway), under the pretense of adding a block entry to the ArbCom board that contains 4 diffs that do not show much of anything [6] without formal proceeding and without giving any direct explanation on my talk page about in which way my edits violated anything that was to enforce upon me [7].
Would it be possible to request arbcom members to consider reverting this block entry [9] on the grounds that the block does not make much sense and that the diffs within the block entry do not substantiate wikistalking and any edit warring to which a digwurren block should have been applied?-- Nmate ( talk) 09:39, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Academic Journals for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 04:53, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi John,
Just so you know, I forked delsort.js and have made two changes to it. The latest change to it has fixed the issue with use of the toSource method which is Gecko (and thus Firefox) only. My version should now work in Chrome and Safari and IE etc.
The other change I've made is to wikipage.js, a dependency. It changes how delsort works: it now shows the table of contents for the delsort list, but it does now work on the HTTPS mode. It's a very clumsy hack, and it'd be great if someone could clean it up, but the important thing for me is that it now works even if it doesn't work well. Thanks again for the script. — Tom Morris ( talk) 17:35, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Georgewilliamherbert said that he was filing to get clarification on blocks & first mover advantage. All of the Arbs who initially said to accept the case said it was regarding that as well, yet the motion that you put forward dealt basically with MF's perceived incivility. I can't speak for MF, but I imagine that is what he is referring to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.230.167.170 ( talk) 21:12, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
The article William Elfving has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
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proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
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JOJ
Hutton 19:42, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, John Vandenberg, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!
I wanted to let you know that some editors are discussing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Elfving whether the article William Elfving should be in Wikipedia. I encourage you to comment there if you think the article should be kept in the encyclopedia.
The deletion discussion doesn't mean you did something wrong. In fact, other editors may have useful suggestions on how you can continue editing and improving William Elfving, which I encourage you to do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the Help Desk.
Thanks again for your contributions! JOJ Hutton 23:59, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Kittens love you! :D Keep up the good work. :D
LauraHale (
talk) 10:40, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi John. No, you're name hasn't been mentioned (yet ;) ) , but after a bit of investigation, I just wanted to let you know that I have opened up a sockpuppet case about Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Destinero. Just giving you a heads up! SarahStierch ( talk) 15:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
G'day John,
Sorry I missed you just then... I tend to react slowly to IM until I've figured out who someone is. Part of being a teacher around web-savvy kids. :) ˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 09:00, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Logan Talk Contributions 19:14, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi John. Just checking to see whether you meant to oppose or abstain from Remedy 11 of the Abortion proposed decision. Your vote is currently in the latter section, but the vote reads more like an oppose to me. It's likely no big deal, but I thought you might want to take a look. Best, NW ( Talk) 16:26, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
John...
I wanted to let you know I posted a response to Bidgee's notes. I also wanted to apologize for getting a bit hot in the conversation. I have no issues with someone questioning motives. That is in the end opinion. But I do get very sensitive when someone questions the quality of the work I've personally invested more than a decade in, just in an effort to make their point, particularly in the manner being done now.
I want to reiterate (I know I've said this multiple times) if the decision is the community would prefer me not to post this data, I won't. Wiki editors have found this data on their own to cite, and the initiation of this effort a couple of weeks ago on my personal part was that the data was sometimes posted incorrectly, and sometimes cited incorrectly. As you can appreciate with any passion project, the effort itself and the personal knowledge people use your work product daily is the reward unto itself.
However, I would greatly prefer the data I presented be evaluated either way. I don't want people, or the Wiki community, being left with the impression that because I decided (and depending on the outcome, it may have been an inappropriate decision on my part) to fill in articles lacking climate data with climate data, that as a result Weatherbase as a whole is poor quality. That is most certainly not the case. There are dozens of sites out there that simply download the WMO 30-year normals and publish them, and these sites are also cited all across Wikipedia. Nothing wrong with it, and completely legal, but it's a republish. Weatherbase's data is copyrighted specifically because the work product that goes into it actually verifies, combines and normalizes the data, targeted at end users who are not meteorologists. It's a fun intellectual challenge. Had I started this 5 years later, I probably would have skipped making a site and just done this direct in Wikipedia. But Wikipedia didn't exist when I started this.
I'm happy to discuss offline, or via Skype. Right now, I'm far more concerned about having the data railroaded by someone who's been looking at this a day and was clearly annoyed by my approach than I am about permission to post, as you can tell.
Let me know. Thank you again.
Frisch1 ( talk) 16:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)Frisch1
I just saw the ArbCom request and fully understand why it was turned down. I do hope we can find someone to engage with and win the trust of this new user. He (I think it's a he) has identified a number of really useful sources, but isn't yet able to work out how, within policy, they can be used to enhance our articles. I would really like to see this material used properly. Itsmejudith ( talk) 23:49, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
I've mentioned you here [10]. Bali ultimate ( talk) 21:46, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
John, going through the Recent Changes, there was some edits to your page by an IP that didn't seem productive. I've revert it. If this was you (just not logged in) accept this as an apology. Achowat ( talk) 15:06, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Back in 2009, you blocked User:Afteread as a sock of a banned user. User:Scientryst is claiming to me that there is a new incarnation, User:Physicrocks. I can't see in your block log or on the user talk page who the alleged master for Afteread was, so I don't know enough to figure out how to proceed. Could you take a look at WP:ANI#Banned user? and provide any insight you might still remember? I'm very soon going to be on a wikibreak, so I won't be able to follow up in a timely manner. Thanks. Qwyrxian ( talk) 15:08, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
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Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | Archive 14 | Archive 15 |
1 - 2004 — July 7, 2007 |
Any news? :-) -- Addi hockey 10 e-mail 03:33, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi John, any luck finding an image for Frank Ponta? I'll be holding the DYK nomination in case you have one. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 09:59, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
John, I tried this google link that you gave in the email with the intention that I know how to operate them before showing the other gals and guys on how to classified user by location. If you look at the link, it's totally collapse on Indonesian user page (search result just went unrelated-ly bezerk), unlike the English one with a lot of search result. Anyway, long story short: not working in Indonesian, might help you in the English page. No need to answer in WP EN page talk, never checked 'em :p Serenity id ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:19, 4 September 2011 (UTC).
Hi John, You have previously voted to decline the case against La goutte de pluie because of an open RfC/U against the user. I have presented a new diff in my section to show that it is highly unlikely the RFC will be successful, and would like to request that you revisit the situation. Thanks. Strange Passerby ( talk • cont) 03:02, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, since you contributed to the article in the last year you may wish to participate in the discussion on refs and tags. In ictu oculi ( talk) 05:24, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a response to a question Newyorkbrad asked. It took time for me to craft it.
To add this at this time, do I need to ask permission from you and your co-author? If so, this is my request.
If permissible, where do I add this? -- Tenmei ( talk) 19:22, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
I was also asked the exact same question on my talkpage. I have replied there. Regards Alexandr Dmitri ( talk) 19:36, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Hai. Terima kasih sebab beri perhatian.
I put up the WMAu IRC geonotice, and it should go live at Sep 26 00:00 UTC. Please go and check (after 11am AEST) if it works. Der yck C. 15:41, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for an explanation here. You may take this for granted, but it's new to me. I do not believe that the underlined sentences are made explicit in any other place.
This would have made a difference if I could have read it before today. This is the answer to questions I had not yet thought to ask.
Please consider adding the underlined sentences in the decision so that a wider readership will have the opportunity to read them.
At Discretionary sanctions, please consider incorporating this phrase in "organised complaint management system" which encourages administrators working together. If I had read this phrase in January 2011, it might have helped mitigate some of the problems in Senkaku-related talk pages.-- Tenmei ( talk) 18:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Sorry I will be unable to attend. Cgoodwin ( talk) 23:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
The article A Graphics Language has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
Stuartyeates (
talk) 06:06, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
A long time has passed and the stated purpose of this filter when it was created has not materialized. Sole Soul ( talk) 11:11, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
I find your editing in my sandbox to be quite disturbing. Given your association with certain individuals, I would think you would leave well enough alone. IF a certain group of individuals has a problem with my creating an article maybe they should talk to me, instead of sending their Admin to do their dirty work.
Your actions are extremely interesting given your conflicting actions following this edit
[2] of your own. Next time why not post "your" concern on my talk page? It is a shame that when it comes to "certain" groups of individuals that all of Wikipedia's policies seem to fade away. --
Kansas Bear (
talk) 02:48, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
How about taking care of this [3]. Or does, "Kansas Bear is not american . he is working for racist governments", not qualify as a personal attack? Cheers. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 03:54, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Another attack [4]. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 03:55, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 04:18, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
John: Once upon a time (July 2007) you commented in an discussion for deletion that Brian Camelio was a member of Journey (band). This observation was added to the article without a reference and ironically enough, is causing a fair amount of current controversy. I don't suppose you remember what the source of that information was do you? I checked the Journey page as of that time and didn't see a mention of it.-- Nowa ( talk) 21:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
I have Twinkle, and I've installed the scripts for the DelSort tool in my vector.js file. Although I have restarted my browser, bypassing the cache, the tool does not work. Delsort appears on the dropdown menu, but when I click it, I get the text "javascript:DelsortFrame()" in the status bar and nothing else happens. Please help! RolandR ( talk) 10:59, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi John, I just got back from a meeting with Siska. Starting tomorrow, I will be her guinea pig to see how the Free Knowledge program works on English Wikipedia, and she has asked that you assist in scoring the article(s) submitted. I am waiting on the scoring sheet, but once I have it I will send it to you. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 13:39, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
How obvious does a john254 sock have to get on [wp:rfar] pages before you lot recognise it :). Unless glottal stop is Tony Sidaway, of course... although, to be honest, what's the difference, really? 101.118.50.41 ( talk) 23:42, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
A few of the articles you have tagged as female were actually male. I have undone your edits on Bobby Despotovski, Gene Bates and Sam Hill. Out of interest, are you going to be creating corresponding cats for male sportspeople? Hack ( talk) 03:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
I notice that Jack Venman has been moved to mainspace. Might be kind of cool if we can get a WikiAcademy article to the front page... what do you think? Lankiveil ( speak to me) 13:11, 7 November 2011 (UTC).
Hello John Vandenberg,
I have just returned from a month long ArbCom block for such onerous reasons as wikistalking and edit warring. It was administrator Ironholds who blocked me, (and I had never heard about him before he blocked me anyway), under the pretense of adding a block entry to the ArbCom board that contains 4 diffs that do not show much of anything [6] without formal proceeding and without giving any direct explanation on my talk page about in which way my edits violated anything that was to enforce upon me [7].
Would it be possible to request arbcom members to consider reverting this block entry [9] on the grounds that the block does not make much sense and that the diffs within the block entry do not substantiate wikistalking and any edit warring to which a digwurren block should have been applied?-- Nmate ( talk) 09:39, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Academic Journals for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 04:53, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi John,
Just so you know, I forked delsort.js and have made two changes to it. The latest change to it has fixed the issue with use of the toSource method which is Gecko (and thus Firefox) only. My version should now work in Chrome and Safari and IE etc.
The other change I've made is to wikipage.js, a dependency. It changes how delsort works: it now shows the table of contents for the delsort list, but it does now work on the HTTPS mode. It's a very clumsy hack, and it'd be great if someone could clean it up, but the important thing for me is that it now works even if it doesn't work well. Thanks again for the script. — Tom Morris ( talk) 17:35, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Georgewilliamherbert said that he was filing to get clarification on blocks & first mover advantage. All of the Arbs who initially said to accept the case said it was regarding that as well, yet the motion that you put forward dealt basically with MF's perceived incivility. I can't speak for MF, but I imagine that is what he is referring to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.230.167.170 ( talk) 21:12, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
The article William Elfving has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
JOJ
Hutton 19:42, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, John Vandenberg, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!
I wanted to let you know that some editors are discussing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Elfving whether the article William Elfving should be in Wikipedia. I encourage you to comment there if you think the article should be kept in the encyclopedia.
The deletion discussion doesn't mean you did something wrong. In fact, other editors may have useful suggestions on how you can continue editing and improving William Elfving, which I encourage you to do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the Help Desk.
Thanks again for your contributions! JOJ Hutton 23:59, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Kittens love you! :D Keep up the good work. :D
LauraHale (
talk) 10:40, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi John. No, you're name hasn't been mentioned (yet ;) ) , but after a bit of investigation, I just wanted to let you know that I have opened up a sockpuppet case about Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Destinero. Just giving you a heads up! SarahStierch ( talk) 15:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
G'day John,
Sorry I missed you just then... I tend to react slowly to IM until I've figured out who someone is. Part of being a teacher around web-savvy kids. :) ˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 09:00, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Logan Talk Contributions 19:14, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi John. Just checking to see whether you meant to oppose or abstain from Remedy 11 of the Abortion proposed decision. Your vote is currently in the latter section, but the vote reads more like an oppose to me. It's likely no big deal, but I thought you might want to take a look. Best, NW ( Talk) 16:26, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
John...
I wanted to let you know I posted a response to Bidgee's notes. I also wanted to apologize for getting a bit hot in the conversation. I have no issues with someone questioning motives. That is in the end opinion. But I do get very sensitive when someone questions the quality of the work I've personally invested more than a decade in, just in an effort to make their point, particularly in the manner being done now.
I want to reiterate (I know I've said this multiple times) if the decision is the community would prefer me not to post this data, I won't. Wiki editors have found this data on their own to cite, and the initiation of this effort a couple of weeks ago on my personal part was that the data was sometimes posted incorrectly, and sometimes cited incorrectly. As you can appreciate with any passion project, the effort itself and the personal knowledge people use your work product daily is the reward unto itself.
However, I would greatly prefer the data I presented be evaluated either way. I don't want people, or the Wiki community, being left with the impression that because I decided (and depending on the outcome, it may have been an inappropriate decision on my part) to fill in articles lacking climate data with climate data, that as a result Weatherbase as a whole is poor quality. That is most certainly not the case. There are dozens of sites out there that simply download the WMO 30-year normals and publish them, and these sites are also cited all across Wikipedia. Nothing wrong with it, and completely legal, but it's a republish. Weatherbase's data is copyrighted specifically because the work product that goes into it actually verifies, combines and normalizes the data, targeted at end users who are not meteorologists. It's a fun intellectual challenge. Had I started this 5 years later, I probably would have skipped making a site and just done this direct in Wikipedia. But Wikipedia didn't exist when I started this.
I'm happy to discuss offline, or via Skype. Right now, I'm far more concerned about having the data railroaded by someone who's been looking at this a day and was clearly annoyed by my approach than I am about permission to post, as you can tell.
Let me know. Thank you again.
Frisch1 ( talk) 16:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)Frisch1
I just saw the ArbCom request and fully understand why it was turned down. I do hope we can find someone to engage with and win the trust of this new user. He (I think it's a he) has identified a number of really useful sources, but isn't yet able to work out how, within policy, they can be used to enhance our articles. I would really like to see this material used properly. Itsmejudith ( talk) 23:49, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
I've mentioned you here [10]. Bali ultimate ( talk) 21:46, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
John, going through the Recent Changes, there was some edits to your page by an IP that didn't seem productive. I've revert it. If this was you (just not logged in) accept this as an apology. Achowat ( talk) 15:06, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Back in 2009, you blocked User:Afteread as a sock of a banned user. User:Scientryst is claiming to me that there is a new incarnation, User:Physicrocks. I can't see in your block log or on the user talk page who the alleged master for Afteread was, so I don't know enough to figure out how to proceed. Could you take a look at WP:ANI#Banned user? and provide any insight you might still remember? I'm very soon going to be on a wikibreak, so I won't be able to follow up in a timely manner. Thanks. Qwyrxian ( talk) 15:08, 30 December 2011 (UTC)